The Cambridge companion to Gershwin / edited by Anna Harwell Celenza.
George Gershwin is often described as a quintessentially American composer. This Cambridge Companion explains why, engaging with the ways in which his music was shaped by American political, intellectual, cultural and business interests. As a composer and performer, Gershwin embraced technological a...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Historical context. The unlikely patriarch / Michael Owen ; Hearing Gershwin's New York / Ellen Noonan ; Gershwin's musical education / Susan Neimoyer ; Gershwin in Hollywood / Jessica Getman
- Profiles of the music. Blue Monday and New York theatrical aesthetics / Kristen Turner ; Broadway in blue : Gershwin's musical theatre scores and songs / Todd Decker ; The works for piano and orchestra / Tim Freeze ; Harmonizing music and money : Gershwin's economic strategies from "Swanee" to An American in Paris / Mark Clague ; Exploring new worlds : An American in Paris, Cuban overture and Porgy and Bess / Anna Harwell Celenza ; Complexities in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess : historical and performing contexts / Naomi Andre ; Writing for the big screen : Shall we dance and a Damsel in distress / Nathan Platte
- Influence and reception. The coverage of Gershwin in music history texts / Howard Pollack ; When Ella Fitzgerald sang Gershwin : a chapter from the Great American Songbook / Will Friedwald ; The afterlife of Rhapsody in blue / Ryan Raul Banagale ' Broadway's "New" Gershwin musicals: romance, jazz, and the ghost of Fred Astaire / Todd Decker ; Gershwin and instrumental jazz / Nate Sloan ; Epilogue: the Gershwin I knew, and the Gershwin I know / Michael Feinstein.